Bible reading arrest
The Times / Barnabas Fund
A bus driver was arrested outside St Paul’s
Cathedral after cathedral staff complained
about him reading aloud from the Bible, it
was reported in July.
Video footage from a separate occasion
showed a police officer telling St Paul’s staff
that ‘it would be remiss of me to move him
on in a place of worship’. Mr Coote, 55, said
that no passers-by had ever complained. St
Paul’s said it would allow Mr Coote to read
from the Bible for 30 minutes per week as it
has a policy of ‘limited disturbance’.